Avlingar

Avlingar is the plural of avling, a Swedish term used in several contexts to refer to offspring or crop yields produced by a living organism. In everyday use, the most common sense is offspring or progeny of an animal or plant, produced through reproduction. In agricultural and breeding literature, avlingar are evaluated to understand heredity, compare performance across individuals, and guide selection decisions. Information commonly recorded about avlingar includes birth date, sex, parentage, growth rates, health status, and production traits such as milk yield or meat quality.

In plant breeding, avlingar may refer to the plants that arise from a particular cross or breeding line, used to assess traits like disease resistance, yield, and quality. In some contexts, avling can denote the harvest or yield of a crop, though more common terms for harvested quantity are avkastning or skörd in Swedish.

Terminology varies by country and discipline, and avlingar is most often encountered in Scandinavian agricultural literature. The concept emphasizes lineage, heredity, and selective breeding, and is linked to breeding programs, performance testing, and genetic improvement efforts.

See also: avl, avkomma, avkastning.